Merchandising
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Aptos Merchandising
The Power of One Inventory
Extend your control over all inventory and related functions in all channels.
Aptos Merchandising
supports more than:
190 brands
13,000 stores
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▸▸ Enterprise Data and Together, these functionality such as flexible approved styles are released
and interactive allocation and from the Assortment Plan.
Product Management powerful applications replenishment with open-to-ship
equip you to: by store. This reduces the need
▸▸ Purchase Order Support both retail and
for markdowns, end-of-season
Management wholesale operations:
Run a more consolidations and inter-store
efficient business: merchandise transfers. For vertically integrated
▸▸ Warehouse Management retailers, Merchandising fully
Merchandising allows you to run
supports the allocation and
your business efficiently with Tightly integrate merchan-
▸▸ Allocation and replenishment of wholesale
a broad range of functionality, dising with planning and all inventory with the retail division.
Replenishment including filters to isolate other retail functions:
under- and over-performing
Aptos Merchandising works
▸▸ Inventory Management items. You can generate alerts Drive local and
seamlessly with all your other
and Web IM to automatically notify you via international growth:
enterprise and customer-
email of anomalies, create ad Aptos Merchandising serves
facing applications to help
▸▸ Price Management hoc analyses and reports, and
unify your solutions enterprise your retail operations at
configure and filter worklists home and overseas with
wide. When paired with Aptos
▸▸ Invoice Matching to access data quickly in any Unicode support for multiple
Planning and Assortment
format you prefer. languages (including English,
Planning, you benefit from the
▸▸ Stock Ledger tightest possible integration French, Spanish and Simplified
Respond to trends: with Product Management, PO Chinese), inventory valuations in
▸▸ Actionable Analytics Management and Allocation. multiple currencies, as well as
Merchandising also lets you
Concept styles become actual global pricing, taxation
predict and respond proactively
styles and purchase orders are and localization of select
to trends with powerful
automatically created when data fields.
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Eliminate costly inefficiencies. track and manage vendor Manage your entire purchase supporting a complete range of
Enterprise Data Management details, packaging, physical ordering process on your PO options including PO type
enables you to leverage all the characteristics, images, terms, either from within (standalone, blanket/release),
core information that defines and descriptions. Pictures your enterprise or remotely. distribution method (bulk, drop-
your operation, including displaying merchandise Purchase Order Management ship, cross-dock), shipment
locations, merchandise can be created as data handles the detailed configuration (multiple or
structures, alternate items, while attributes and process of placing purchase single), plus a variety of
hierarchies, vendors, currency alternative hierarchies can commitments with vendors vendor and delivery options.
codes, exchange rates, freight be changed at will. These and monitors the progress of It is also integrated with key
methods and reason codes. applications support direct- buys and their delivery dates, supply chain applications to
to-consumer engagement while maintaining financial and ensure your buying decisions
Similarly, Product and advanced order open-to-buy control. are sound, your vendor and
Management lets you easily management functionality. delivery instructions are clear,
The application equips you and your stores get the right
to buy on your terms by products on time.
Warehouse Management
With Aptos Warehouse
Management You will:
▸▸ Accelerate warehouse operations and
Aptos Warehouse Management devices to manage all aspects
streamlines and accelerates of the retail warehouse in real flow-throughs to reduce stock-outs
your warehouse operations and time—from receiving, ticketing
optimizes your productivity and inventory management ▸▸ Boost the efficiency and productivity
to reduce stock-outs. to pick, pack and shipping of warehouse staff
This comprehensive WMS for order fulfillment. It
dramatically increases your incorporates online, detailed
▸▸ Increase chargeback visibility and
visibility into the warehouse task tracking, system-directed
and the speed and accuracy put away (with options of vendor compliance
with which merchandise vendor, class, style or SKU
flows from receiving through storage groupings) and cross- ▸▸ Improve the accuracy of inventory,
distribution to store shelves. dock options. Manual- or picking and order fulfillment
event-driven cycle counts and
Warehouse Management is continuous online item and
▸▸ Reduce inventory carrying costs
highly scalable, flexible and document validations ensure
configurable. The application inventory integrity and help
uses wireless handheld RF reduce shrink.
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you can:
allocate any items directly responding to past activities,
to your stores, leveraging current situations and
user-defined calculations forecasted trends. You can
and accounting for all key allocate to plan methodology,
variables: styles, colors and ▸▸ Replenish to forecasted needs open-to-ship methodology
sizes in demand based on and to re-forecasted,
sales histories, sell-through ▸▸ Create rules for in-season store plans, and use
and potential, group rankings, intelligent forecasting to drive
location plans, attributes and
insufficient inventory replenishment. A&R ensures
other metrics. your business avoids stock
▸▸ Incorporate similar store and imbalances and out-of-stock
Equally important, Allocation
location histories conditions to increase your
and Replenishment gives you sales with lower inventory
replenishment you can trust. levels and fewer markdowns,
Configurable, automated ▸▸ Replenish loose units, packs; boost customer satisfaction
processes think like you maintain order and and increase gross margins.
think to drive everything
from forecasts based on
distribution multiples
past performance and ideal
algorithms to model stock
updates and the creation and
execution of POs.
Price Management
Ensure the price is right! complete flexibility—chain- margins, shoppers and results, With Price Management
Price Management lets you wide, or by country, zone or and analyze sales and inventory you can:
change and test pricing location, and to incorporate by price status. You can create
▸▸ Analyze sales and
strategies and localize pricing changes at the POS and in or simulate price changes for
inventory by price status
at different locations and ticketing, allocation, forecasting styles in inventory or on order
times to effectively market and analytics. and send this information to ▸▸ Check price status by
your products. This application your stores. All changes can SKU / location
protects margins by supporting With Price Management, you be permanent or temporarily ▸▸ Price by chain, jurisdiction,
pricing down to the style, color, can experiment with a wide based on promotions and deals pricing group, location,
size and store level. It equips range of pricing schemes to such as BOGOs, stock up color, SKU
you to manage pricing with determine their impact on your sales, etc.
▸▸ Create price changes directly
from analytics
Invoice Matching
”
Aptos Invoice Matching, combined with Inventory
Management, enabled The Paper Store to save
substantially by identifying billing errors and
opportunities for invoice discounts—$275,000
in our first year on the system, and $100,000
each year thereafter.
- Tom Anderson, CEO, The Paper Store
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Stock Ledger drives Stock Ledger can be Merchandising’s actionable exceptions automatically. This
performance throughout your maintained based on cost and customizable decision allows you to determine and
merchandising processes by method (weighted average, support tools let you analyze capture opportunities for faster
enabling you to clearly see your by chain, country or location) all merchandising activities, turns, improved margins, better
inventory position and margins or retail valuation methods including sales, orders, markdown execution and more
by category at any given point with user-defined price and receipts, distributions, precise forecasting.
in time, from your start-of- inventory statuses. The price changes, inventory
month inventory through all module’s highly configurable adjustments, transfers and Integration with Aptos Analytics
subsequent transactions to components are mapped returns to vendors, then directly and Retail Business Intelligence
the end of the month, to from transactions based on initiate changes and inventory will further extend the analytics
support accurate accounting transaction type, price status, transactions. The module and actionable insights of
and cost calculations. inventory status and reason provides fast access to data at Aptos Merchandising to
code to allow very granular any level of the location and/or strengthen your management
transaction combinations that merchandise hierarchies and capabilities across a wide range
can be summarized in general lets you send scheduled email of modules and functions.
ledger. A separate G/L calendar
is maintained for instances
where that is different from
your merchandising calendar.
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